This week in science, academia and scientific publishing: The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) removed approximately 3,300 journals from its site. The clean sweep affected journals that failed to submit an application to the

This week in research news: Coming soon: CrossRef members will have DOIs assigned to their preprints. The change is slated to take place this August. Thomas Edison once said, “I have not failed. I’ve just

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